How to import Office365 User photos over 10KB & without CSV in bulk?

Updating user photos in their profile is much important as it helps users to get a good Credibility, Recognition and to brand themselves in
Social media such as Yammer or within their organization.

There are cases that users will not have professional photo updated or there is a business policy which enforces users to have professional
images updated. Either the case, Admin has to take care in enforcing this. Also there exists limitation for the user photo not to be more than 10 KB.

In this blog, we are going to explore how to add user photo more than 10KB size and in bulk. The steps involved are

Remove the 10KB photo size limitation

Prepare a folder with all users photo

Update the profile photo

The user photos can be viewed in below locations:

Outlook Web Access

Contact Card

Thumbnail in emails

Outlook Client

Yammer

Lync Client

SharePoint (People Search / Newsfeed)

The complexity raises here is that the photos updated through SharePoint will not be reflected immediately in SharePoint search results and
in Outlook client. Vice versa, if the user updated his photo from OWA / Lync it will not reflect in SharePoint immediately. This is because the
images are cached in all systems and it takes time to update it.